At 11:41 PM 5/26/2010 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:

I'm genuinely struggling to see how a Sumo distribution ever comes into being under your proposal. There's no evidence that anyone wants it (otherwise it would have been created by now!!)

Actually, sumo distributions *have* been created; it's just that there are so *many* of them: * Linux distributions * BSD & Mac "ports" systems * ActivePython, the Enthought Distribution, etc. * certain distutils extensions that I shall not name When the idea of "sumo" distributions were first being batted around (10-12 years ago?), I'm not sure even *distutils* existed yet, let alone any of this other stuff. I mean, yeah, the port systems and distros existed, but their coverage wasn't nearly as good as it is today.